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  • Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

    Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot...
  • Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass...
  • Rebellion by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rebellion by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The quadrant is on the brink of all-out civil war, but almost nobody knows it. Now that he knows a malevolent AI that calls itself the Machine has seized much of the ConFed's military apparatus and even controls the Grand Adjudicators themselves, Jason Burke must decide if he risks picking a fight with such an overmatched enemy, or if he runs to hide and fight another day...
  • Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

    Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing.Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her...
  • Miles Errant by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles Errant by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Contains: The Borders of InfinityBrothers in Arms Mirror DanceMiles Naismith--in the person of his two alter-egos Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan--embarks on a perilous series of adventures, from the liberation of Barrayaran allies from a Cetagandan POW camp to the rescue of clone children scheduled to be murdered for their bodies...
  • A Night Without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton

    A Night Without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The planet Bienvenido is in crisis. It has finally escaped the Void, emerging into regular space. But it's millions of light-years from Commonwealth assistance, and humans are battling the Fallers for control of their world...
  • Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle

    Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Marine First Lieutenant Jacob Brown is bored.For months he's been sitting around on an alien planet, waiting for command to recall his scout team so they could rest and be re-outfitted. The team went through hell during their previous mission, losing both their commanding officer and their ship...
  • Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare...
  • Miles, Mutants, and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mutants, and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Content: Falling free Labyrinth Diplomatic immunity Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith : his life and times.Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job...
  • Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey

    Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets...
  • Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

    Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most captivating characters in the Star Wars universe, from his introduction in bestselling author Timothy Zahn’s classic Heir to the Empire through his continuing adventures in Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, and beyond...
  • Alien Arcana by Glynn Stewart

    Alien Arcana by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    An alien ruinA murdered archeologistAn ancient secret—and a conspiracy that will kill to keep it! When a scientist is murdered after finding signs of alien magic in an archeological dig, Mage Damien Montgomery, Hand of the Mage-King of Mars, is sent to investigate both the murder and the alien runes...
  • Judgment of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Judgment of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A war fought in the shadowsA conspiracy shattered in fireA moment of weakness… When politics are played for blood. The destruction of the secret archive of the Royal Order of Keepers on Mars has left Damien Montgomery, Hand of the Mage-King, with his enemies defeated, his lover dead—and his questions unanswered...
  • Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova...
  • Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn

    Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.“If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance.” Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting...
  • Voice of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Voice of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    YOU CAN NEVER GO HOMEWhen accusations of piracy and mass murder are laid against his homeworld, Damien Montgomery is sent to resolve the crisis.As counter-accusations fly and an old flame re-enters his life, the newest Hand of the Mage-King of Mars finds himself in the midst of a bloody interstellar shadow war...
  • Bane of Worlds by Anthony James

    Bane of Worlds by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Following his successful mission to recover the missing warship ESS Crimson, Captain John Duggan finds himself unredeemed in the eyes of his superiors. His duties resume and this time he’s given something easy - escort a cargo ship to a distant planet and bring it home safely. But war is never so predictable and a straightforward mission becomes something much more important...
  • Alpha Class: Engineering by T.S. Paul, Michael Anderle

    Alpha Class: Engineering by T.S. Paul, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wide Open Spaces. Ancient Ruins. Pissed Off Governments. Five Adventurous Students. What could possibly go wrong?Tag along as we follow Alpha Class when they study with Jeo, the lead of the Engineering team, and learn about engineering by reviewing important marvels across the earth.Without getting permission.If they thought the moon was dangerous, wait till they return to Earth...
  • Iron Wolves by Jonathan Yanez, Jason Anspach

    Iron Wolves by Jonathan Yanez, Jason Anspach

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There can be no victory without sacrifice. The Iron Wolves are a company of legionnaires whose legendary exploits date back to the Savage Wars. When they are invited to be guests of honor at a ceremony on a small, backwater planet, they look forward to some precious time away from the constant conflicts of galaxy's edge...
  • Deep Black by Miles Cameron

    Deep Black by Miles Cameron

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marca Nbaro had always dreamed of serving aboard the Greatships, with their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city.They are the lifeblood of human-occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species...
  • Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Contains: Cetaganda Ethan of Athos Labyrinth.Diplomat, soldier, spy - Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayarayan Empire, a.k.a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts...
  • Order of the Centurion by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Order of the Centurion by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A PRICE PAID IN BLOOD “The Order of the Centurion is the highest award that can be bestowed upon an individual serving in, or with, the Legion...
  • The War Ship: Rise of the Jain, Book Two by Neal Asher

    The War Ship: Rise of the Jain, Book Two by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination...
  • Defiance by Joel Shepherd

    Defiance by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The UFS Phoenix is hunting for the long-lost drysine data-core. Within it lie the secrets to saving humanity from the resurgent deepynine machine-race. To recover it, Captain Erik Debogande must work together with the man who holds his sister hostage — the power-hungry parren leader Aristan. Aristan has sworn he will return Lisbeth Debogande once Phoenix grants him equal access to its prize...
  • The Enemy Within by Joshua Dalzelle

    The Enemy Within by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The quadrant is burning. Violent, deadly uprisings are breaking out, seemingly at random, all across the Confederation’s sphere of influence. The response by the powerful Confederation Fleet has been swift and decisive, but for every planet they restore order to, another erupts into chaos...
  • Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

    Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought...
  • Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it...
  • Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Our heroes are back… kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy’s best hope for survival.First, the bad news: an ancient evil—you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal—is about to be unleashed...
  • Inversion Point by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Inversion Point by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zander and Felix's relationship has been to the brink and back: the Human-Stin War, imprisonment and an actual death/resurrection. Zander's death, to be specific, and the experience has left him…changed. The mysterious race known as the Guardians chose to revive him and appointed him as their emissary...
  • Salvage System by Kevin Steverson

    Salvage System by Kevin Steverson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They couldn’t afford a ship or a fleet…and now they have a whole system to defend! Harmon Tomeral, along with friends Clip, Zerith, and the artificial intelligence Jayneen, were heroes. They’d brought back the battlecruiser Salvage Title from an unknown system and had defeated the alien Squilla and saved their home system of Tretrayon, not once, but twice...
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    ai  aliens  military  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Stryker's War by Josh Hayes, Jason Anspach

    Stryker's War by Josh Hayes, Jason Anspach

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Feel the thunder! Stryker Company always brings the fight, but when they relieve embittered and embattled Republic marines, they find an enemy unwilling to stand up and face them. Tasked with protecting the Republic's interests on a mining world, the legionnaires face roadside ambushes, double-dealing locals, and constant sabotage...
  • Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Captain John Duggan, it seems like war never ends. Each success brings another mission and more death. Following events at the Helius Blackstar, Duggan is given the Space Corps’ newest warship – a heavy cruiser armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and technology...
  • Reconnaissance in Force by Terry Mixon

    Reconnaissance in Force by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When going to war, it pays to know your enemy. Particularly when they can crush you like a bug.Princess Kelsey Bandar has one slim chance to steal the tech her people needs to survive. Only a bold strike deep into enemy space keeps the New Terran Empire alive.Success gives them a chance. Failure dooms them to death and worse.Kelsey and her friends once again risk everything for their people...
  • Raiders by C.R. Daems

    Raiders by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Anna and her Naval Intelligence Agency, NIA, teammates have a new high-priority assignment: foreign raiders who are wreaking havoc within the United Alliance of Stars. They hit high value targets, have access to inside information, kill the security guards, and leave no witnesses. The NIA team soon discovers the raiders' system has been well thought out and has no weak links to exploit...
  • Excession by Iain M. Banks

    Excession by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain...
  • Agents of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Agents of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An enemy hidden in the shadowsA crack in the armor of secrecyOne chance to find an answerCaptain David Rice and the crew of Red Falcon have spent two years infiltrating the arms smuggling underworld of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars. When the co-opted rebellion on Ardennes reveals a supply chain of weapons intended to fight Mars, this makes them the perfect team to investigate...
  • Kantovan Vault by Joel Shepherd

    Kantovan Vault by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The UFS Phoenix is on a mission to find a lost data-core that may contain the secret to defeating the alo-deepynine alliance. But the means to find the data-core is hidden deep in tavalai space, in a highest-security vault where the tavalai's manipulative State Department keep all their most treacherous secrets. To recover it, Phoenix must pull off the most daring heist the Spiral has ever seen...
  • Méridien by S.H. Jucha

    Méridien by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Méridiens are fleeing to their far colonies—and they have reason to run. Over the course of decades, they have lost hundreds of ships, billions of people, and seven Confederation colonies to an alien enemy: an advancing swarm of silver ships transported in the bowels of a gigantic, spherical vessel...
  • Discovery by Ken Lozito

    Discovery by Ken Lozito

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Exploring New Earth should be a thrilling undertaking. Instead, the more the colonists learn about the planet, the more alarmed they become. Alien ruins hint at a species who fought great wars among themselves and disappeared centuries ago.When Connor Gates discovers a hidden bunker, he finds something he never expected...
  • War Factory by Neal Asher

    War Factory by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity...
  • Brass Man by Neal Asher

    Brass Man by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr...
  • Ascension Saga: 7 - Destiny, Part 1 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 7 - Destiny, Part 1 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny Jones is a princess with a bad attitude. She doesn’t play nice with others, she doesn’t dress up in pretty clothes, and she has absolutely zero interest in behaving like a lady. Especially when she’s so close to catching the people who tried to have her killed. Oh, and kidnapped her mother, queen of the planet Alera...
  • Salvage Fleet by Kevin Steverson

    Salvage Fleet by Kevin Steverson

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They couldn’t afford a ship, much less the cost of registering one…and now they need an entire fleet! Harmon Tomeral, along with friends Clip, Zerith, and the artificial intelligence Jayneen, were heroes...
  • Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray

    Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navigate a dangerous new planet and an uncertain future.A Jedi must be a fearless warrior, a guardian of justice, and a scholar in the ways of the Force. But perhaps a Jedi’s most essential duty is to pass on what they have learned...
  • Originator by Joel Shepherd

    Originator by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A quarter of a million people die in the destruction of the moon Cresta. The League civil war is accelerating out of control, but projections indicate that as their technologically induced sociological dysfunction continues, all of humanity may face a similar fate...
    Categorized as:
    ai  aliens  military  robots  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult
  • The Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro

    The Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Major Bhaajan achieved the impossible. Born Undercity, the slums below the City of Cries on the planet Raylicon, she broke free to become a military officer with Imperial Space Command. Now retired from military duty, she works as a private investigator on retainer to the Majda Family.Hired by The Ruby Pharaoh herself, Major Bhaajan is tasked with finding a killer...
  • 23 Years on Fire by Joel Shepherd

    23 Years on Fire by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Commander Cassandra Kresnov has her hands full. She must lead an assault against the Federation world of Pyeongwha, where a terrible sociological phenomenon has unleashed hell against the civilian population...
  • Chaos Vector by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Chaos Vector by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.Sanda and Tomas are fleeing for their lives after letting the most dangerous smartship in the universe run free...
  • Crimson Tempest by Anthony James

    Crimson Tempest by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fifty-three years after it vanished, Earth's only Super-Devastator warship, the ESS Crimson sends out a distress signal... Humanity is fighting against an implacable foe. The Ghasts – a ruthless alien race - seem hell-bent on wiping out mankind. They have a vast warfleet and their technology is advancing at a terrible rate...
  • The Soldier by Neal Asher

    The Soldier by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity’s Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations...
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